amazon.com Inc.
NASDAQ symbol AMZN, is the leading bookseller on the Internet, as well as a leading video and music seller. It also has numerous other store categories, including electronics, computer games, toys and tools. Through Amazon Services, the company also offers programs that let sellers market on its web sites.
POWERSHARES QQQ ETF $116.44 (Nasdaq symbol QQQ; buy or sell through brokers; www. invescopowershares.com), formerly called Nasdaq 100 Trust Shares, holds stocks representing the Nasdaq 100 Index. That consists of the exchange’s 100 largest stocks by market cap....
VANGUARD GROWTH ETF $106.09 (New York symbol VUG; buy or sell through brokers) aims to track the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) U.S. Large Cap Growth Index. It’s a broadly diversified index that mainly consists of big U.S. companies.
The $50.6 billion fund holds Apple, Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon.com, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, and Walt Disney....
The $50.6 billion fund holds Apple, Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon.com, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, and Walt Disney....
Pennsylvania-based Vanguard Group is one of the world’s largest investment management companies. In all, it administers almost $3 trillion U.S. across 175 mutual funds and ETFs.
Generally speaking, Canadians can’t buy units of mutual funds that are registered in the U.S., because these investments aren’t registered with provincial securities commissions....
Generally speaking, Canadians can’t buy units of mutual funds that are registered in the U.S., because these investments aren’t registered with provincial securities commissions....
WAL-MART STORES INC. $72 (New York symbol WMT; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 3.1 billion; Market cap: $223.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; Dividend yield: 2.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.walmart.com) is testing a new home delivery service using the Uber and Lyft ride-sharing services....
AMAZON.COM $714.26 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (206-266-1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 471.8 million; Market cap: $339.4 billion; No dividends paid) used its website to launch a new series of original TV shows in June....
HECLA MINING COMPANY $4.55 (New York symbol HL; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (208-769- 4100; www.hecla-mining.com; Shares o/s: 384.0 million; Market cap: $1.7 billion; Dividend yield: 0.2%) explores for, mines and processes silver and gold in the U.S....
EXTENDICARE INC., $8.69, symbol EXE on Toronto, owns 64 senior-care facilities that can house 8,464 residents—both long- and short-term. It manages another 54 residences that are home to 6,426 seniors. Extendicare also operates 47 ParaMed Home Health Care branches in six provinces. ParaMed’s 10,900 staff members provide nursing care and other forms of assistance to clients who remain in their own homes. In the three months ended March 31, 2016, the company’s revenue rose 29.8%, to $284.4 million from $202.2 million a year earlier. Cash flow jumped 72.5%, to $12.2 million, or $0.14 a share, from $7.1 million, or $0.08....
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) give you a low-cost, flexible alternative to mutual funds. Here are five ETFs we recommend and one to sell.
POWERSHARES QQQ ETF $105.05 (Nasdaq symbol QQQ; buy or sell through brokers; www. invescopowershares.com), formerly called Nasdaq 100 Trust Shares, holds stocks representing the Nasdaq 100 Index. That consists of the 100 largest shares on the Nasdaq exchange by market cap. The Nasdaq 100 Index contains shares of companies in a number of major industries, including computer hardware and software, telecommunications, retail/wholesale trade and biotechnology. It does not contain financial firms. The fund’s expenses are about 0.20% of its assets. It yields 1.2%. The index’s highest-weighted stocks are Apple, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Alphabet Inc., Cisco Systems, Intel Corp., Amazon.com, Gilead Sciences, Comcast and Facebook....
These six ETFs hold mostly blue chip, widely traded stocks on Canadian and U.S. exchanges. All of them mirror, or track, the performance of major stock market indexes. That’s opposed to narrower indexes focused on, say, resources or themes such as solar power or biotech. Of course, you pay brokerage commissions to buy and sell these ETFs. But their low management fees give them a cost advantage over most mutual funds. Below we update our advice on all six—five buys and one we don’t recommend....